Ah...too cute!

You are probably bored of my random posts but I have to post this because Chris has been out of town since Saturday visiting his mom in Washington and I know he'd love this.

Landon loves to steal hats.  So I bought him his own hats BUT he doesn't like his hats....only those that are someone elses.  He especially loves Chris's old icky hats and he loves to wear them backwards.

Today I'm wearing a hat.  Landon took it off my head while I was folding laundry.  When I went to pick up Alisha this is what I found....he's so funny!

Oh...the reality

Today I went to the gym....I go to the gym almost every day. 

Have I lost any weight since the twins were born...NO!  Have I eaten any sugar or processed foods for a month...NO!  BUT still I get to hold onto all the baby weight plus what was there before.  I think my little friend the mirena may be partially to blame but were aren't getting rid of her just yet because the consequences could be worse:)

But this post isn't about complaining; it's about the reality that my days don't completely consist of adorable little babies and two handsome perfect little boys. 

Here's the positives of my gyms adventures because I really have a lot of positives.  Today I first dropped Landon, Alisha, and Eli off at the gym daycare.  We are greeted with "it's the twins (they are so NICE!)" and then "wow, we don't know how you do it getting here for the 8:30am class".  Seriously, they make me feel so good.  I hesitated to even get a gym membership because I was a little worried the greeting would be more like "it's the twins" (muttered sarcastically under their breaths). 

Then as I entered my class the cutest (I'm guessing 80 year old) woman came over and asked me if I could look at the zipper on her jacket (probably 10 years old).  The part to pull it had broken off but "it's a perfectly good jacket" she said.  I looked and anazlyed it and told her I could see a tiny hole she might be able to thread something through.  She said "oh my old eyes just couldn't see it".  Then two seconds later she literally folded in half.  She is probably the most limber person I've ever seen.  There are two OLDER ladies that come to this REALLY hard class and they keep up.  I love watching them...they are seriously amazing. 

Like any day at the gym I sweat a ton and get a red face.  Today my face felt very hot and I looked in the mirror and it looked purple.  Needless to say at the end of class the second older lady took one look at me and said "wow, you got a good workout." 

When I was done I headed to pick up my kids and all the daycare ladies (there's like 6 of them) were raving about my children and commenting on the good workout I must have gotten:):):)  Then two seconds later the 1st older lady ran into the daycare to show me she could now see the small hole...she was so excited. 

Yes...this is my reality (sweaty, red faced, makeup-less) but I gotta say that all these people make my day at the gym fun and entertaining and uplifting...who cares about the stubborn weight that won't come off.  And the other exciting this that I can finally now do it the whole stomach workout.  I blamed the twins for my inability for a long time and decided they could no longer be my scape goat....today I did it and it didn't kill me.

5 months

This morning I realized I was late in taking some pictures of them at 5 months so I had a total of 5 minutes to take some before I had to take jaden to school.  Eli always makes a mess of her outfit within 5 minutes either with drool or spit up (today it was a blowout) so I wanted to get them taken first thing.  They really are the cutest little things ever and the pictures do not do them justice.

On Sunday Jaden and I looked through my baby book and Jaden (he's starting to notice appearances and I'm working really hard with him on using kind words to describe people) told me I was a bigger baby:):):)  I think these little girls are taking after me and they look a lot like my baby pictures. 

I just love getting to know them better and knowing their personalities...they are both unique.

Alisha doesn't appear to be nearly as strong or loud as Eli.  At first I thought maybe she just going to be about a month behind Eli on everything but I think that is more her personality.  She's more content to observe and doesn't have a big desire to try new things.  She has a very sweet smile and can get very loud with her babbling but she doesn't do it often.  Her face lights up when you smile at her.

Eli is a loud and determined as they come.  I have a feeling she'll be a very determined little girl and let nothing stop her.  The boys think she's so fun to play with because she responds loudly to them.  She loves to play with paper and she's drooling a ton (Alisha isn't yet so I think Eli may cut teeth first.) 

These girls are going to do amazing things:):):)

Four children do live here....

Up until today you'd walk in my house and assume I only had two children since I've failed to add pictures of the girls to my walls (their bedroom is decorated with their pictures but I've failed to add any anywhere else in the house).  The only clue would be baby toys and some of them are in double so the person would maybe be clued in their were two babies!

 This is our memory picture frame.  I of course added 1 of each of them so sadly their presense is still minimal:)  I realized I should have printed one of the two of them together.

But as I look at these FOUR children it scares me.  Four children is a lot of responsibility and I hope I do a good job!  In a way I think it simplified my life a little having two the same age since their activities and stages will be the same.  I feel like I'm juggling so much with the boys schedules and I can't imagine how much more complicated it could be as they got older if the girls weren't the same age...I'm thinking positive TWIN thoughts:):):)

Oh Yummy!

Both girls have started putting their blankies in their mouths...they like to suck on them. 

Today I noticed that Eli's head band was missing and then noticed she'd pulled it to her mouth and was sucking on it.

And this is cute Alisha....she's usually checking out all the trouble her sister gets into.  She likes to observe:)

From Gracies Len's

Gracie got ahold of my phone and this is what I got....most were self portraits:):):)

Now that's something to smile about:)

A little bit of a pickle

Before I was able to snap pictures Eli rolled over onto Alisha and the only thing she could do was lay her head on Alisha.

So once I got my camera Eli figured out how to push herself away from Alisha.

 Then Alisha had had it....."Eli, get away from me, I don't want to be your pillow"

 As she's now pushing her away.......

 Eli now decided she better get away and Alisha has changed her mind...."come back Eli".

These little girls are so strong.  About a month ago I came back to the gym daycare after a workout and was shocked to see Eli in one of these...I totally thought she was too young.  So we came home and tried it again and she loves it.  Alisha isn't totally strong enough on her own and I usually squish a blanket in with her if it's for more then 5 minutes.